# G1301 διατηρέω

διατηρέω (diatēréō), Strong’s G1301: to watch thoroughly, i.e. (positively and transitively) to observe strictly, or (negatively and reflexively) to avoid wholly KJV: keep. Occurs 23 times.

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*diatēréō* — to watch thoroughly, i.e. (positively and transitively) to observe strictly, or (negatively and reflexively) to avoid wholly

KJV: keep

Built from [διά diá](https://besorah.bible/word/G1223) (through) + [τηρέω tēréō](https://besorah.bible/word/G5083) (perhaps akin to G2334)

Occurs 23 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 2:51](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/2?v=51) — And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her…
- [Acts 15:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=29) — that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from…
- [Judith 2:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/2?v=10) — But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you, then you must…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/11?v=25) — How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=26) — that your children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn that it is not the growth of crops that nourishes a man, but…
- [Sirach 1:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/1?v=31) — 
- [Sirach 28:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/28?v=1) — He who takes vengeance will find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely make his sins firm.
- [Sirach 28:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/28?v=5) — He himself, being flesh, nourishes wrath. Who will make atonement for his sins?
- [2 Maccabees 14:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/14?v=36) — So now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep undefiled forever this house that has been recently cleansed.”
- [2 Maccabees 15:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/15?v=34) — They all, looking up to heaven, blessed the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, “Blessed is he who has preserved…